Quinton Morris
Violinist Quinton Morris in the lower level of Ballard's mysterious Fu Kun Wu. Photo by Janae Jones.
The Northwest’s newest classical music star has arrived—globetrotting from one big gig to the next in New York, Paris, Chicago...

SuttonBeresCuller
Artists SuttonBeresculler take a break from their OtB residency at the Sitting Room, Lower Queen Anne's artsy French café. Photo by Janae Jones.
Three disheveled businessmen stranded on an island floating next to 520. A mobile...

In 1900, Frederick Weyerhäuser bought 900,000 acres of timberland in the Pacific Northwest. His ability to recognize and exploit the region’s natural resources eventually made him the 8th richest man in American history, with a net worth of $72.2...

Tootsie, a multi-media photo collage by Yoon Son, a visual artist and VJ appearing at this year's Decibel Festival.
Decibel Festival is Seattle’s blank slate for a new musical future. If only the music can escape history first.
A certain reverence...

We spend a lot of time at City Arts HQ talking about how to bridge the music and arts scenes, stimulate cross-pollination among the disciplines and shake things up a bit.
September presented an opportunity to combine a juicy think piece about the...

Jerry Manning, pictured here in the Rep's Leo K. Theatre, is nurturing Seattle playwrights. Photo by Bob Suh.
Seattle Repertory Theatre has nearly a dozen new plays in the works through commissions and collaborations with Northwest writers. The...

When the Uptown Theatre shut down last October, the credits rolled on an era in the heart of Lower Queen Anne. But while moviegoers were saying their farewells, the film buffs at SIFF Cinema were making plans for a sequel.
Last month SIFF...

This month, Ambach & Rice, one of the recent success stories in Seattle’s gallery scene, will open a new space, hosting the Alon Levin exhibition “Conclusion to the Big Ideas.” Unfortunately, Seattle art enthusiasts will need to book a plane...

Thanks to our new age of austerity, the future of city grants for the arts is uncertain, but the non-monetary Mayor’s Arts Awards continue to highlight Seattle’s outstanding creative people and organizations. This year is no exception, with honors...

Through the mind’s eye with Fungal Abyss
For four Wednesdays in August, the Comet Tavern hosted Fungal Abyss, a four-piece psych-rock side project by the members of Seattle metal band Lesbian. Guests from the city’s bubbling lysergic scene sat in...

Sometimes a band is gateway. B.C. punk provocateurs Nomeansno, for instance.
Nomeansno came into my life in 1989, when I was living in Tacoma, passing through the odd years between high school graduation and legal drinking age. I was 19, stumbling...

Suyama Peterson Deguchi’s elegant simplicity
A massive crown of thorns hangs vertically between the upper and lower offices of Suyama Peterson Deguchi, an architecture firm known for its design artistry as well as its support of artists. The...

Dried peppers for sale at La conasupo market.
A food writer's swan song to the city's best eating
I’m sitting in the lilac-colored dining room of Georgetown’s Kauai Family Restaurant, pushing the last few strands of a mountain of smoky,...

Remembering is fundamentally recursive:Each body of water a womb, each body of water a body; each body loved a watery font of want. I knew a man who knew a man who loved me, he was a teary type, one who would tearat his own eyes when frightened. I had...

Watercolor, Ink, Gouache on paper, 40 x 26 inches, 2009
Justin Gibbens trained in scientific illustration and traditional Chinese painting, both of which he puts to work in his subversive zoological images, the latest of which are on view at G....

Sept. 6HannaJoe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) switches gears for this arty action fairy tale about a young girl (Saoirse Ronan) raised in the remote wilderness by her father (Eric Bana) and trained to fight, kill and survive. Although there...